🆚 JavaScript vs. Python

📈 JavaScript is much more popular than Python.
🌍 JavaScript is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

JavaScript

Python

Type

Programming language

About

JavaScript is an interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside HTML and CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.

It runs in all major browsers, supports event-driven and asynchronous programming, includes a standardized specification called ECMAScript, and is widely used for client-side scripting, server-side development, and cross-platform applications.

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.

It is an interpreted language with indentation-based syntax, automatic memory management, exception handling, and support for object-oriented, procedural, and functional programming.

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

ecma-international.org #1,072,074

python.org #429

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The JavaScript programming language is 210 times more popular than Python.

Total websites

Market share

Programming Languages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JavaScript is more popular than Python in all countries.

United States

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

France

Netherlands

Italy

Spain

Russia

India

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Programming Languages category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Programming Languages category.

🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Nepal in the Programming Languages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Nepal in the Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

JavaScript is more popular than Python in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

Name

Rank

#15

#35

#240

#378